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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:54:50 +0100
From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] rtc: fix type information of rtc-proc
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On 11/11/2015 at 09:06:51 +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote :
> Hi, all
> 
> I'm sorry. Maybe I didn't describe clearly enough before. These words are finally
> shown to the end user. The end user maybe not a programmer, abbreviation word is unsuitable.
> 

Yes, that is exactly m point. What if an end user currently has a
program parsing the file and looking for alrm_time or alrm_date? After
updating his kernel, the program won't work anymore which is something
we don't want.

> 
> cat /proc/driver/rtc
> 
> rtc_time        : 00:47:43
> rtc_date        : 2015-11-11
> alrm_time       : 03:27:58				//alrm_time --> alarm_time
> alrm_date       : 2015-10-08				//alrm_date --> alarm_date
> alarm_IRQ       : no
> alrm_pending    : no					//alrm_pending --> alarm_pending
> update IRQ enabled      : no
> 
> 

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
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